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Evie Shockley

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Evie Shockley

Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry—the new black (Wesleyan) and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press)—and a book of criticism, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (Iowa). She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.